The Russian Emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. Officers are nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.⁠ ⁠… The Austrians let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor.

Napoleon

Schönbrunn, 25th Brumaire, 1805 ,

at eight o’clock in the morning

To Prince Murat,